Colonel Tresham Gregg

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Distinguished soldier who was wounded at Dunkirk, taken prisoner in Libya, and fought alongside partisans in Italy

Colonel Tresham Gregg was a tank commander who was taken prisoner in the
Western Desert but escaped from an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and went on
to lead a force of partisans who liberated a part of northern Italy at the
end of the Second World War.

To the Italian authorities, irritated by his serial escape attempts and
success as a guerrilla leader, he was known as “Il Pericoloso” — the Danger
Man.

Tresham Gregg was in action or in captivity almost throughout the war. As the
British Expeditionary Force fell back to the Channel coast in the face of
the German